Example sentences of "[verb] be doing [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 2 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 3 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 4 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 5 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 6 | Atwood 's daughter , on the other hand , and the women poets she imagines are doing something different with words . |
| 7 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 8 | The LCD had been doing its best for the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 9 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 10 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 11 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 12 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 13 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 14 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 15 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 16 | ‘ Since 1968 we 've been doing our best to piece the fragments into a satisfying whole . |
| 17 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 18 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 19 | Most people imagine that they are fairly competent communicators ; adults have been doing it all their lives ! |
| 20 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 21 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 22 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 23 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |